Flecheiros

The Flecheiros are one of the uncontacted peoples in the Javari region of the Amazon. Their ambiguous name simply means "arrow shooters".

Language
Flecheiro
RegionJavari
unattested
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologflec1235[1]

Ethnographically, the people are similar to the Kanamarí. However, a meeting between a Kanamarí and the Flecheiros was observed, showing that the two have different languages. Their language is thus unknown and therefore unattested.[1]

History

In September 2017, the Brazilian government investigated a reported massacre in August of about 10 members of the tribe who were gathering eggs along a river when they were killed by gold miners. The miners had bragged about "cutting up the bodies and throwing them in the river." [2][3]

The Flecheiros are the subject of a story The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace in the 2011 National Geographic edition detailing a 76-day expedition in 2002 led by famed indigenous activist Sydney Possuelo by to find the status of the Flecheiros in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land.[4]

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Flecheiros". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. "‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Reported Killed in Brazil" By SHASTA DARLINGTON SEPT. 10, 2017 New York Times
  3. The Last Stand of the Amazon’s Arrow People By SCOTT WALLACE SEPT. 23, 2017
  4. Scott Wallace (August 2003). "The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes".


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